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A step forward in the quest to replace silicon with 2D chips
Mar 09, 2023 (SPX)
A major problem is carrier mobility, or how fast electrons can move through the semiconductors. These 2D semiconductors are notoriously slow in this area, limit...
China issues sharp rebuke of Dutch chips tech export curb
Mar 09, 2023 (AFP)
The Netherlands, Europe's premier maker of the machines used to manufacture microchips, has been pushed by Washington to impose curbs similar to those announced...
Dutch to curb chip tech exports for 'security' reasons
Mar 08, 2023 (AFP)
The Netherlands, Europe's premier maker of the machines that help manufacture microchips, has been pushed to impose curbs similar to those announced by Washingt...
Solid-state thermal transistor demonstrated
Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)
In modern electronics, a large amount of heat is produced as waste during usage-this is why devices such as laptops and mobile phones become warm during use, an...
China invests $1.9 bn in top chipmaker: report
Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)
Semiconductor manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) is set to receive 12.9 billion yuan from the state-owned National Integrated Circuit Industry I...
Apple to spend extra 1 bn euros on Munich chip hub
Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)
The investment, to be spread over the next six years, comes on top of an earlier one-billion-euro commitment announced in 2021, when Apple made Munich the Europ...
CHIPS Act just the first step in addressing threats to US leadership in advanced computing
Mar 01, 2023 (SPX)
Once upon a time, the United States' early technological prowess positioned the nation to outpace foreign rivals and cultivate a competitive advantage for domes...
SwRI researching ARM, RISC-V processors for faster spaceflight computers
Mar 01, 2023 (SPX)
"Conventional spaceflight technology is larger, heavier and more power-hungry than today's microprocessors, which translates to bigger spacecraft, larger solar ...
US-funded chip firms to face curbs on expanding in China
Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)
The rules apply to a $39 billion fund under the Chips and Science Act signed into law last year, and with the Commerce Department's Chips Program Office soon se...
The switch made from a single molecule
Feb 24, 2023 (SPX)
This switching process can be three to six orders of magnitude faster than switches in microchips, depending on the laser pulses used. Fullerene switches in a n...
A new way for quantum computing systems to keep their cool
Feb 24, 2023 (SPX)
But quantum computers need to communicate with electronics outside the refrigerator, in a room-temperature environment. The metal cables that connect these elec...
New chip for decoding data transmissions offers record-breaking energy efficiency
Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)
To overcome this problem, senders encode data before they are transmitted, and then a receiver uses a decoding algorithm to correct errors and recover the origi...
A new type of quantum material with a dramatic distortion pattern
Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)
The resulting distortions are "huge" compared to those achieved in other materials, said Woo Jin Kim, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Institute for Ma...
Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as qubits
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
Today's biggest quantum computers still only have a few hundred "qubits," the quantum equivalents of digital bits. Now, researchers at MIT have proposed a new a...
Encoding breakthrough allows for solving wider set of applications using neutral-atom quantum computers
Feb 15, 2023 (SPX)
The findings in the paper Quantum optimization with arbitrary connectivity using Rydberg atom arrays were made public in Physical Review X and are the work of Q...
Tech firm ASML probes info leak in China
Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)
ASML, which is one of the world's leading makers of machines that help make microchips, however added that the leak was "not material" to its business. "ASML re...
Quantum Australia: Hear global insiders map out next phase of the boom
Feb 15, 2023 (SPX)
"These technologies will change industries in dramatic ways, and advances are occurring so rapidly that to keep up, conferences like Quantum Australia 2023 are ...
Spinning up a 'flip-flop' qubit
Feb 14, 2023 (SPX)
"Sometimes new qubits, or new modes of operations, are discovered by lucky accident. But this one was completely by design," says Prof. Morello. "Our group has ...
Chiral phonons create spin current without needing magnetic materials
Feb 14, 2023 (SPX)
Spintronic devices are electronic devices that harness the spin of an electron, rather than its charge, to create current used for data storage, communication, ...
Atom-thin walls could smash size, memory barriers in next-gen devices
Feb 14, 2023 (SPX)
So it was with a touch of irony that Evgeny Tsymbal offered his explanation for a technological wonder - movable, data-covered walls mere atoms wide - that may ...
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